Monday, December 29, 2008

Nintendo what?


So this is how the unemployment money is being spent? From Yahoo! News: By Ben Silverman: “Despite early predictions that 2008 would be the year Sony regained momentum in the bitter video game console wars, it turned out to be false hope. Industry leader Nintendo stayed ahead of the pack all year, thoroughly dominating both the home console and handheld hardware markets with their Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS systems, respectively. According to NPD Group, Nintendo flat-out owned the all-important month of November by selling over 2 million Wiis, better than twice as much as the next closest competitor, Microsoft's Xbox 360 (836,000).” Why don’t people just buy a game of checkers or, better yet, a nice chess set? I wouldn’t even pay $5.00 for one of these electronic gizmos. Do I want to turn into a zombie??? Am I too conservative? No!!! Remember, people who produce TV shows don’t watch TV. Maybe the woman at left does. Who knows?